How are everybody's projects coming along? Have you brainstormed ideas? Thrown together a rough prototype? Just vaguely thought things through in the shower?
For myself, I think I've figured out the project I want to work on. In my game, players take on roles as security agencies across different countries, cooperating to stop an evil mastermind and to handle his various plots and schemes. Hopefully I can put the first prototype together this evening.
Thanks!
I wanted to try making an RPG without dice. Instead (during combat) you program your actions into a timeline using cards and they all play out simultaneously.
Outside of combat you can use your abilities casually or with maximum effort. Putting your full effort into them gives you a significant bonus, but it costs Stamina. Stamina is also used to make your strongest attacks in combat, and you have a limited amount between rests, so you have to carefully decide what's worth it.
Those are the basics anyway, it's a fair ways off from being playable yet.
Well, I couldn’t sleep again last night, so I figured out nanDECK, a free software tool that helps you rapidly prototype cards for a card game.
I have now scripted a way to design my 20-card game, and will be able to programmatically change the font sizes, positions of the letters on the cards, and whatever.
My new tasklist:
